Extremely High Copy Numbers and Polymorphisms of the rDNA Operon Estimated from Single Cell Analysis of Oligotrich and Peritrich Ciliates

Protist

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 369-379

  Gong, Jun ^a,b   Dong, Jun ^a,c   Liu, Xihan ^a,c   Massana, Ramon ^d  

^a YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ciliophora; Copy number; Intragenomic variability; Quantitative PCR; RDNA; Sequence polymorphism.

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

CILIOPHORA; FUNGI; PROTISTA;

EID: 84876417320     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: 16180941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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